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| shknbke | West Face  Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2009 | |
| We made it way tougher than it should have been. Successfully navigated through the cliff bands down low but drifted away from the white gully and ended up on the north saddle! Climbed sketcy, loose junk on the n.w. side of the summit block. Stick to the south ridge! | |
| Posted Jul 21, 2009 6:57 pm | ||
| chicagotransplant | Snowy West Face Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2009 | |
| With snow is the way to go on this peak, most of the lower talus gullies, and then the white gully from the shelf at the bottom, all the way to the ridge was snow covered. That's one way to keep the loose rock in check ;-) Traversed over to Lightning and then back down the west face. | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2009 10:10 am | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | West Face Variation Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2008 | |
| Never thought I'd ever repeat this pile of choss crap. Without snow, it wasn't as hard as I would have thought. Still dangerously loose though. We ascended the West Face on a serpentine route weaving in and out of the White Gully before finally topping out on the ridge about 75-100m south of the summit. Continued on to do the traverse to Pyramid Peak. | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2008 2:16 am | ||
| SarahThompson | White Gully (standard route) Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2007 | |
| Climbed this interesting peak on a very strange weather day. It was cloudy and rained a little off and on, but the rock stayed fairly dry and there was no electricity. Afterwards, traversed to "Lightning Pyramid" (3rd or 4th class) and then onto UN 13,631 (very low 5th class but dangerously loose - don't attempt this unless you have experience scrambling on total junk). One of my favorite climbs of the summer. | |
| Posted May 23, 2008 3:28 pm | ||
| xskier77 | Thunder and Lightning Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2007 | |
| Climged to the saddle of Thunder and Lightning and summited Lightning first. Then traversed to Thunder. Both incredible summits with great views of all the Elk 14ers. I've been wanting to climb this peak for years and finally made it yesterday. | |
| Posted Sep 23, 2007 3:00 pm | ||
| miztflip | Traversed from Lightning Date Climbed: Apr 26, 2007 | |
| Climbed the Class 4 route to the Thunder/Lightning saddle. Found the rock on the right of the gully to be fun scrambling. The traverse over from Lightning was class 3 with a little routefinding. Descended the West Slopes route and found it to not be as bad as the stories. Definately climbing the class 4 and descending class 3 was the way to go. | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2007 10:41 pm | ||
| shanahan96 | white gully Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007 | |
| climbed the white gully with some friends before heading for lightning pyramid. brutally long day, 19hrs and 40 mins. it was still a throughly enjoyable adventure! jamie | |
| Posted Jul 16, 2007 9:56 pm | ||
| iskibc | Ski Descent of West Face Date Climbed: Mar 25, 2007 | |
| Made a successful first ski descent off the summit of Thunder Pyramid with some nice and light powder and great weather. Fun climb, great ski. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2007 9:33 am | ||
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| Downy | Re: Ski Descent of West Face | |
| No you didn't!!! It was done long before you even moved to CO. | |
| Posted Dec 26, 2008 10:02 am | ||
| Asphazell | White Couloir Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007 | |
| Climbed with Skasgaard, Shanahan, & Jamie N. Fun climb up the White Couloir, hairy traverse to "Lightning Pyramid". Fun but very hard day, physically & mentally. | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2007 9:06 pm | ||
| Kiefer Thomas | White couloir Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007 | |
| Did this as a snow climb with three other friends (SP members). Kane is right, the rock up here is as loose and dangerous as it gets. Mostly class-3 moves to the summit once off the west face. Traversed the ridge to "Lightning Pyramid" (13,722). | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2007 10:04 am | ||
| kalet | South Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006 | |
| From UN13,631 and UN13,722 "Lightning Pyramid". | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2006 5:11 pm | ||
| Kane | Route Climbed: West Face Date Climbed: July of 2005 | |
| I'm glad I got this one out of the way. Because of my love for the Maroon Creek Valley, I knew at some point I needed to get this summit. Happy to have had perfect weather as well. Still need to get 13,631 and 13,722. | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2005 4:26 pm | ||
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